Freaky Good Guy
When I was going to school at the University of Illinois back in the 80’s, a sandwich shop opened up on Green Street that we all started going to. They had a cool neon sign in the window that said...
Three of My Favorite Things
In the summer of 1982 my friend Joey from my Freshman dorm asked me to go to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) with him. He told me just enough for me to understand that it was a camping...
Pizza Sellouts
My daughter Keely is a poor college kid in Madison, Wisconsin. Actually, she’s also a beautiful, recently married young woman, but “poor college kid” sounds better for the purposes of this blogpost. I keep her in Toppers gift certificates pretty...
Why Does Toppers Pizza Exist?
A couple weeks ago I said I was pissed off that the big pizza chains are selling cheese of questionable character (and I’m still pissed off about it). In that article I said “We started Toppers 25 years ago with a...
Robots to Deliver for Toppers
Dateline August 9, 2041 Toppers Pizza is on track to deploy its Pizzabots worldwide next month. The acquisition of Toppers by Google in 2030 launched a series of incredible restaurant leading technologies over the last decade, but none bigger than...
Proud to Be a Chain!
I recently read a customer review where the person said they loved Toppers, but they preferred to eat at a local place! I have to admit that I didn’t know how to feel about that. I’ve always been the renegade little...
How Toppers is like Apple and Buffalo Wild Wings
I love introducing people to Toppers. I am regularly in a group or with a person who wants to know more about whom and what Toppers is: franchise prospects, magazine reporters, that big dude sitting next to me on the...
Sometimes it’s a Prize Fight
I’m average. I have tried to teach my kids that you don’t have to be the fastest, or the smartest, or the tallest, or the strongest, or have the best innate anything to succeed, or even to win. I have...
The Best Legal Advice I Ever Got
Over 25 years of doing business I’m pretty confident I’ve earned a law degree…and paid for it. Attorneys are expensive, particularly bad ones, so I have settled in with a few good ones who not only take care of business...
My 2016 Oscar Predictions
My crack staff and I have spent the last several weeks working through our nominees. I’m proud to announce my picks for this years Oscars. Drum Roll please…. BEST PICTURE: Toppers Pizza kicking the competition’s butt Hands down my favorite...
